Dear Supporter, Last month, I had the opportunity to see the work our 4-H Africa partners are doing in Ethiopia.  I was there to research their program for a possible AgriCorps expansion.  In one rural community, I met Girum, a young man who had only been a 4-H member for one year.  I asked him what he wanted […]

The National FFA Organization organized my first international experience when I was national FFA president in 2001. For decades, National FFA Officers have traveled to Japan to represent FFA and American agriculture to one of our largest agricultural trade partners. The officers work with members of the Future Farmers of Japan—an organization founded during Gen. […]

Dear supporter, AgriCorps continues to refine its mission of connecting American agriculture volunteers to the demand for school-based, agricultural education in the developing world.  With our seven corps members in Ghana, we have learned that this mission produces three outcomes.  First, we develop globally minded American agriculture professionals with experience living abroad.  Through the AgriCorps Training […]

Dear supporter, I just attended the 1st Global 4-H Summit in Seoul, South Korea, with 4-H programs from fifty countries in attendance; and I was once again reminded why we, as AgriCorps, do what we do. There, Mr. Kim Hong Kuk, the chairman of Harim Group, a global livestock processing and animal health company, credited […]